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Look these crazy weeks don't seem to stop, and though this week started out a bit slower (while folks were waiting to see how the speculation about certain red berry flavored conspiracies are shaking out) the big labs are shipping!

We've got space uncle Elon dropping an "almost-gpt4" level Grok-2, that's uncensored, has access to real time data on X and can draw all kinds of images with Flux, OpenAI announced a new ChatGPT 4o version (not the one from last week that supported structured outputs, a different one!) and Anthropic dropping something that makes AI Engineers salivate!

Oh, and for the second week in a row, ThursdAI live spaces were listened to by over 4K people, which is very humbling, and awesome because for example today, Nous Research announced Hermes 3 live on ThursdAI before the public heard about it (and I had a long chat w/ Emozilla about it, very well worth listening to)

TL;DR of all topics covered:

* Big CO LLMs + APIs

* Xai releases GROK-2 - frontier level Grok, uncensored + image gen with Flux (𝕏, Blog, Try It)

* OpenAI releases another ChatGPT-4o (and tops LMsys again) (X, Blog)

* Google showcases Gemini Live, Pixel Bugs w/ Gemini, Google Assistant upgrades ( Blog)

* Anthropic adds Prompt Caching in Beta - cutting costs by u to 90% (X, Blog)

* AI Art & Diffusion & 3D

* Flux now has support for LORAs, ControlNet, img2img (Fal, Replicate)

* Google Imagen-3 is out of secret preview and it looks very good (𝕏, Paper, Try It)

* This weeks Buzz

* Using Weights & Biases Weave to evaluate Claude Prompt Caching (X, Github, Weave Dash)

* Open Source LLMs

* NousResearch drops Hermes 3 - 405B, 70B, 8B LLama 3.1 finetunes (X, Blog, Paper)

* NVIDIA Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B (